"Jew or not Jew" iPhone app dropped from online Apple store

PARIS — French anti-racism groups have dropped anti-Semitism suits against Apple after it withdrew a “Jew or not Jew” iPhone app from its online stores worldwide, the groups’ lawyer said Thursday.

Groups including the French Jewish Students Union, SOS Racisme and the Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Between People had brought a suit against Apple in Paris demanding it withdraw the app worldwide.

“Listed for you, thousands of Jewish personalities (through their mother), ’half-Jewish’ (through their father), or converts,” the app’s inventor Johann Levy promised potential buyers on the French Apple Store.

Rights groups dropped their suits “after the withdrawal of the application from every country in the world, which satisfies our demand,” the groups’ lawyer Stephane Lilti said in court.

“I’m satisfied that Mr Levy has belatedly repented and taken the wise decision to withdraw the application,” Lilti said, speaking for four rights groups.

Apple on September 14 withdrew the app from its French online shop after an outcry from rights groups, which demanded the California-based computer giant also drop the app from its other stores.

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